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Hackwhackers: Details are emerging on the character of Kavanaugh and Mark Judge.
Shower Cap: A review of the week in Trumpian madness. Also, don't miss his comprehensive election guide.
Love, Joy, Feminism: What the excuse-making for Kavanaugh says about "purity culture".
The Rectification of Names: A look at the triviality of Dinesh D'Souza.
Bonus link: A bit of projection here, I think.
Blog round-up by Infidel753.

North Carolina election officials ordered a do-over in the country's last undecided congressional race, after a dramatic change of heart by the leading candidate. Republican Mark Harris conceded his 905 vote lead was tainted by possible election fraud. David Begnaud reports.

One November afternoon in 1998, about 20 anti-abortion protestors gathered outside a minister’s home on a quiet, tree-lined street in a Madison, Wisconsin suburb. Among them was 23-year-old Matt Bowman, a recent college graduate who had come to town the year before to join a pro-life group, hoisting a large picture of a dismembered fetus and a video camera he said was rolling for his own protection.

When Mara Leveritt looks back on her time covering the West Memphis Three case, she is reminded of her favorite quote from Joseph Conrad: “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
In the mid-’90s, sensational headlines about the West Memphis Three, the group of teenagers accused of killing three young boys in a satanic ritual, were seemingly everywhere.

The Oscar-nominated animated short film Bao centers on a cute, little Chinese dumpling and his immigrant parents. Director and illustrator Domee Shi, who immigrated from China to Canada as a girl, says she wanted to use the story to explore the “food language of love”—a concept that is both endearing and creepy given the film’s dark twist.